Hi Everyone,
Can anyone identify the serif fonts used on these stamps?
Serif = Antiqua? (Perhaps a little thin?)
Blackletter = Fette Fraktur?
Thanks
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Hi Everyone,
Can anyone identify the serif fonts used on these stamps?
Serif = Antiqua? (Perhaps a little thin?)
Blackletter = Fette Fraktur?
Thanks
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This seems really suspicious. The Palatino shown in the sample doesn't match the original metal cut. It matches the later phototype version of Palatino. The original had a smaller x-height/taller ascenders, the top of the /t/ was taller, and the /g/ was more squat. The /6/ and /8/ also match the phototype version, but not the metal version. I'm not sure exactly when the revised phototype version of Palatino was released, but it was not before the sixties, more like the seventies as far as I can recall.
been kindof reading along, and looking up a bit of history. i think it not impossible that Zapf did pen the letters for the stamp. he was conscripted, and worked desk jobs including a lot of writing/cartography/etc as he was basically a poor soldier. the names on the papers seem accurate & traceable. why not?
Sorry, I don't think I was explaining very well.
The initial two stamps were completely post-war, stamps added by the Bundesarchiv or people trying to fake their originality, so now are completely irrelevant. I think you're all right about it being Palantino.
However, the last stamp I posted (Also see below) is dated early 42/43. The upper font looks like Bodoni, the lower I'm really not sure.

Yes, I understood that. The last stamp you posted does not look like a post-war addition. Some Bodoni may be the case, the other one: I am not familiar with it. The one storey g is rare, checked my photocopied Seeman’s Handbuch der Schriftarten from 1926, it could be something like Schmale fette D-Antiqua by Klingspor. Seemann only shows ‘Hamburgers’ … apart from that I do not have another specimen showing that typeface. Maybe someone else here has?
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